Okay, it’s back. I’m a Celebrity returns on ITV1 (UK), and will be on every night for the next three weeks. Now, I’m not a fan of most reality shows, but I’ve always enjoyed this programme.
The hosts, Ant & Dec, are good. They’ve got excellent personalities and have ‘star’ written all over them. They’re no Morecambe & Wise, but in today’s trivia-infested media they’re as good as you’re going to get.
So they hold the programme together regardless.
But the real thing I like about it is the way it reduces known celebrities to the raw and we get a glimpse of what they’re really like. Indeed, the public, too. For when there’s one they don’t like, the voting system can be tantamount to bullying.
So the latest ‘victims’ were dragged out last night, bungee jumping into the jungle, prepared to be starved, humiliated, thrown to the crocs and made to eat kangaroo testicles. So who have we got this year?
Well …
Who?
Never mind, you can watch the incredible Spooks on Tuesday nights (BBC1). I was going to say there’s also The Street on Thursday, but they’ve sandwiched this, placing the new Kris Marshall drama, Sold, between programmes. Do hope it doesn’t ruin Kris’s career when this whole sandwich flops. I like him, too.
I think, unless I’m a Celebrity gets its act together pretty quick, it will be part of TV history.
A shame.
© Anthony North, November 2007
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